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Claire Caruana

The police would not say whether the Gozo Minister’s husband, Silvio Valletta, would be removed from the government’s anti-money laundering agency.
Calls for his removal from the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit were made last month after the...

Ivan Martin

Updated 6.30pm with Labour Party reaction
Opposition leader Adrian Delia on Friday called for the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister's chief of staff Keith Schembri and Minister Konrad Mizzi following a report exposing the ownership of...

Two men were injured after falling from a height while working on a construction site in Xewkija. Police said the men, both Albanian nationals living in Gozo, were hospitalised at around 11.45am, shortly after the incident in Triq il-Madonna...

Vanessa Macdonald

The National Development and Social Fund is starting the process to sell all or part of the shareholding it took on in Lombard Bank Malta.
The fund, which receives revenue from the citizenship scheme acquired 49.01% of the shares of Lombard Bank...

Edwina Brincat

The three men caught after taking delivery of 870,000 smuggled cigarettes on Thursday have been charged in court.
The cigarettes were brought to Malta on speedboat from Sicily. They are now in the possession of the Customs Department.
James...

Edwina Brincat

A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with attacking his girlfriend.The 38-year-old pastizzeria owner from Santa Venera was arraigned on Friday on charges of attacking his girlfriend and slightly injuring her. The prosecution, led...

Ivan Martin

A story exposing the ownership of the secret offshore company 17 Black on Friday sparked calls for government resignations and police investigations.
Local criminal investigators have been handed an intelligence report naming Electrogas power...

Claire Caruana

Just over a quarter of all students aged between 14 and 16 opt for a vocational subject, the fourth-lowest rate in Europe, fresh data shows.
According to the European Union’s statistics office, Eurostat, of the 19,303 students in upper secondary...

Denise Grech

The Malta Financial Services Authority will get criticised whether it acts or not, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.
"If the regulator does not act, there is criticism that it is being too easy, if it does act then it is accused of suffocating...

Denise Grech

The Cardiac Catheterisation Suite received a €1 million upgrade to include all the latest technologies for invasive interventions in cardiac surgery.
The €1 million upgrade will be paid by the National Development and Social Fund (NDSF), which is...

Jacob Borg

FIAU report identifying Electrogas power station director and Tumas Group CEO Yorgen Fenech as 17 Black’s owner sent to police in spring 2018 for money-laundering investigation.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his chief of staff Keith...

Ivan Camilleri

A judicial protest calling for the publication of the controversial 500-bed extension contract at St Vincent De Paul has been filed by Partit Demokratiku leader Godfrey Farrugia.
The protest concerns a €60 million tender, issued for the provision...

Edwina Brincat

A man facing a jail term for allegedly defiling his 11-year old niece 10 years ago has been cleared on appeal after the victim requested leave to re-testify, later withdrawing the complaint which had been filed by her manipulative mother.
After an...

More than 10 hours of sunshine and the month’s maximum temperature of 27.4˚C on the first day of October might have raised hopes that mild weather would linger a little longer.
However, October went on to become the stormiest month since 1951,...

Malta has registered a trade deficit of €171.9 million in September compared €234.4 million in the same month in 2017.
The National Statistics Office said that according to provisional data for international trade both imports and exports showed...

Jacob Borg

Banks operating in Malta have lamented the damage being done to the island’s reputation by financial institutions failing to live up to their regulatory requirements.
The Malta Bankers’ Association said that when customer due diligence was not...

Crane Currency has printed its one billionth bank note at its Malta facility, 10 months after the start of production in December.
“This has been no mean feat. Printing bank notes involves complex and exacting processes. From start to finish, each...

A 34-year-old woman suffered grievous injuries after losing control of her car and crashing into an electricity pole in Luqa.
The police said the accident took place on Thursday at 9.55pm at Ħal-Farruġ.
The Senglea woman, who was driving a Toyota...

Ivan Camilleri

Updated 10.05am with Steward's reaction
Plans to build a new state-of-the-art Gozo General Hospital have been put on hold despite contractual obligations it had to be up and running by last May, the Times of Malta is informed.
According to a €2...

Ivan Camilleri

The Lands Authority has told the Times of Malta that it needs more time to provide a copy of the engagement contract of its CEO and his declaration of assets submitted last July.
Although Mr Piscopo was engaged to head the State entity more than...